I RODE THE SCHOOL BUS ALL MY LIFE

Alright, raise your hand if you have taken a ride on a public city bus or even know somebody who has in the last year?

Right nobody, as I learned from great acting in the movie Crash the reason buses have such big windows is so everybody can see the people riding to laugh at.

I think a good internal design competition and free public service we can provide for the City of Raleigh would be to design a bus that people want to ride. Studies have shown that when a light rail line is implemented on the exact same line w/ the same stops and frequency as a previously existing bus line the ridership goes up. Why? Why can't we design a bus that people will be proud of riding and cities would be able to implement. Bus lines are far less expensive than implementing light rail and easier to modify and adapt to growth. However, since it is so damn cool to ride light rail and so damn ghetto to ride buses cities are forced to pay the extra for light rail to get the ridership numbers needed to make a system effective and please society.

Buses are to light rail as Starbucks is to Maxwell House.

The idea would be an internal design process where one or a couple of concepts are produced/rendered over a period of a few months and then in some way form or fashion given to the City of Raleigh free of charge to grow our goodwill and hopefully produce publicity for GO2.